Ingram Micro gets secure with Cisco
2012-04-18 Germany : network and security VAD Ingram Micro, Value division has been appointed official distributor by Cisco for its Scansafe and Ironport lines of security products. This partnership ought to be pan-european, but officialization for other countries beside Germany are still pending, Germany being thus the spearhead of the move. The pilot program covers the ESA products (Email Security Appliance), WSA (Web Security Appliance) and ScanSafe cloud hosted solutions. Following this, a wider approach in the European markets will be rolled out.
Ingram Micro takes Symantec.cloud security solutions to its portfolio
2012-04-17 Germany : broadliner Ingram Micro, through its value division, has added to new Symantec.cloud solutions to its portfolio : online backup system Backup Exec.Cloud and desktop security system Endpoint Protection.cloud. Both are targeted to the SMB market and part of its Cloud-Initiative Channel Transformation Alliance.
Ingram Micro names Alain Monié CEO
2012-01-30
Broadliner Ingram Micro has promoted Alain Monié to CEO. Monié, who will also retain his current title of president, succeeds Gregory Spierkel, who will remain at the company until April 15, 2012, to assist in the management transition. Monié, a 61yo French national, is currently the company's president and COO. He joined Ingram Micro as executive vice president in January 2003 and was appointed president of the APAC region a year later. He was promoted to president and COO of the corporation in August 2007 and resigned three years later to become chief executive officer of April Management, a Singapore-based pulp and paper industry giant. On Nov. 1, 2011, Monié returned to Ingram Micro in his current role, re-assuming his prior responsibilities : a nearly flawless engagement for someone who was groomed to be Spierkel's successor. Before Ingram Micro, Monié was the head of LATAM operations at Honeywell International and APAC operations at Allied Signal, where he led the company's expansion into China and India. Monié has been a member of the board of directors of Amazon since November 2008, and was recently elected to the board of Ingram Micro in November 2011.
Ingram Micro stops its partnership with Visionapp
2012-01-20 Germany : VAD arm of broadliner Ingram Micro has decided to end its relationship with SaaS provider Visionapp, which was started back in 2009. The distributor plans to focus instead on its own cloud platform, ought to be launched in Germany in the coming months.
